Video posts don’t typically do super well on Lemmy but this one deserves attention. Just watch it. You’ll understand why.

Sidenote but the body double of Kirk is the same guy who is the voice over artist for Maul and Palpatine in the animated Star Wars stuff. Sam Witwer. Also known as Starkiller. You can really recognize him in a couple of the facial expressions during this video.

  • flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    30 days ago

    The dude in the

    spoiler

    early-TNG uniform is Yor, who briefly appeared in Discovery and was established to have travelled between the Prime and Kelvin universes.

    Apologies if i’m stating the obvious

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      30 days ago

      Yep! I recognized the bastard the second I saw him and was shocked that they brought him in for this moment. However, from a representation perspective of crossing from one universe into another, it’s an extremely beautiful way to do it.